Reply #48: Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Saddam

[Blitz]

slaughtered their own citizens en masse. In many cases, just gathered them up and butchered them. In others, let them starve, on purpose, in their MILLIONS. Thousands died in MILITARY CONFLICTS during the Bush presidency. Ditto for Clinton. Is Clinton like Hitler, Stalin and Mao? Is Kennedy? How about LBJ? More people died under both JFK and LBJ than did under Bush. Far more.

Reasonable people can differ as to whether or not the Iraq war was wise or called for. An intelligent, civilized discussion on that question is entirely possible. However, comparing Bush to Hitler (or Stalin or Mao) is intellectually vapid. The mere fact that you can sit in the United States and make such an argument shows that it is false on its face. The comparison suffers from a lack of basis in fact. It shows a complete lack of intellectual rigor or, in the alternative, intellectual honesty on the part of the proponent of such a comparison.

As for Cleland, he didn't have to "prove" anything. He simply lost to a man that the voters of his state liked better, in no small part due to the fact that he was strongly supported by a very popular war-time President. That happens.